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held not to apply, In respectfully submit that fully to prevent Coolie atrocities by British Subjects on the Sea and especially in China Waters an Act similar to the Kidnapping Act, 1872, is necessary and as that act was supplemented by an Ordinance of Queensland so the Imperial Act should be supplemented by a Hong Kong Ordinance.
14. I should submit as safe course the recital and repeal of every territorial felony with causes prohibiting and punishing every act that comes within it in terms similar to the Kidnapping Act of 1872. There should be additions adapted from the Slave Trade Abolition acts. I further suggest that valuable additions for any such legislation would be found in the sweeping provisions of the American Coolie Trade Prohibition Act, 1862.
15. The utter failure of all previous Colonial enactment having reference to the Coolie Trade, a declaration that the Coolie Trade is the Slave Trade or that it is in all respects Slave Trade appears to me to conclusively show that prohibition and not regulation is the remedy and the